Opinion: Despite water concerns, we continue to build like crazy and reservoir expansion keeps being delayed
This is a country with the third-largest amount of fresh water on Earth, a province that boasts of its rainforests, and a metropolitan area that mostly used to drip with rain in all seasons.
It means that currently, there is less water available this year than there was in 2021, when a heat dome killed 619 British Columbians and fire destroyed Lytton within hours. In 2021, Metro Vancouver had 50,000 fewer residents.Article contentTwo developments currently underway in Vancouver alone — Oakridge and Sen̓áḵw — will add close to 20,000 new residents.
There are plans. But reservoir expansion in particular keeps being delayed in the hope that shorter showers and brown grass will solve an increasingly dire problem.It’s not only ducks that are being inconvenienced. All of the world’s largest animals are battling to survive in their changed land, sea and air habitats.
In 1975, the population hit four billion. It’s now nine billion and the Earth is one degree warmer than it was a century ago. Two-thirds of that warming occurred since 1975.Article content
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